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Developing a Teaching Portfolio Participants: Elaine Justice, Psychology

Developing a Teaching Portfolio Participants: Elaine Justice, Psychology Wayne Hynes, Biology David Metzger, English C. Ariel Pinto, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. What is a Teaching Portfolio?.

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Developing a Teaching Portfolio Participants: Elaine Justice, Psychology

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  1. Developing a Teaching Portfolio Participants: Elaine Justice, Psychology Wayne Hynes, Biology David Metzger, English C. Ariel Pinto, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

  2. What is a Teaching Portfolio? • A document that describes what, why, and how you teach • Your “Philosophy of Teaching”

  3. What is a Teaching Portfolio? • Articulates goals and assumptions about teaching • Angelo &Cross (1993) • Develop ability to apply principles and generalize to new problems & situations • Develop the ability to think for oneself • Develop analytic skills • Learn the terms and facts of the subject matter

  4. What is a Teaching Portfolio? • Articulates how goals are related to what we do in the classroom • Lecture vs. discussions vs. demonstrations • Multiple choice vs. essay tests • Out-of-class assignments • Types of readings

  5. Purposes of a Portfolio • To support and improve teaching • A process of development over time • To document your teaching experiences and abilities • Job applications • Promotion and/or tenure

  6. What goes into a Teaching Portfolio • The document • Relatively brief – 8-12 pages. • Include a table of contents • Artifacts of teaching • Appendices: supporting materials to illustrate points made in the text

  7. The Text of Your Portfolio • Begin with the courses you teach (or feel competent to teach) • Articulate your understanding of how students learn • Describe your goals for your students • Discuss how your classroom activities and assignments relate to your goals

  8. The Text of Your Portfolio • Indicate how your assessments measure whether your goals have been met • Discuss how your view of teaching fits with the goals of the department or university.

  9. Teaching Artifacts • From yourself • Course materials (syllabi, handouts, copies of PowerPoints, etc.) • Representative student samples of graded assignments • Record of advising done • Record of student achievements • Video of teaching a class

  10. Teaching Artifacts • Artifacts from Others • Student teaching evaluations • Written review of teaching by a peer or supervisor • Copies of letters related to teaching evaluation or awards • Testimonials from students

  11. Teaching Artifacts • Evidence of subscribing to journals on teaching • Evidence of attending conferences or workshops on teaching (like PFF!) • Membership in teaching organizations • Other evidence of teaching scholarship (articles, textbooks, curriculum development)

  12. Resources • A guide to the Teaching Portfolio, University of New Hampshire website:http://www.gradschool.unh.edu/PFF/portfolio.pdf • E. B. Rasmussen (2006) Creating teaching portfolios. In W. Buskist & S. F. Davis, Handbook of the teach of psychology (pp. 301-306). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing • T. A. Angelo & P.K. Cross. (1993). Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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